Author: DK Publishing Publisher: DK CHILDREN Product Description Looking at the technology all around us-and then explaining how it works, the How Things Work Encyclopedia lifts the hood of a car engine, gets inside a TV set, and discovers the power of invisible microwaves. With close-ups, cutaways, and diagrams bringing the technology to life, and […]

Rating: (1 reviews) Author: Daisy Meadows Publisher: Scholastic Paperbacks Book Description Jack Frost is causing trouble in Fairyland again! This time, he’s stolen the seven jewels from Queen Titania’s crown. Without them, all the fairy magic in Fairyland is fading fast! Can Rachel and Kirsty help Lucy the Diamond Fairy find the final jewel? Or […]

Rating: (29 reviews) Author: David Macaulay Publisher: Houghton Mifflin/Walter Lorraine Books Amazon.com “Is it a fact–or have I dreamt it–that, by means of electricity, the world of matter has become a great nerve, vibrating thousands of miles in a breathless point of time?” If you, like Nathaniel Hawthorne, are kept up at night wondering about […]

Rating: (11 reviews) Author: William Gurstelle Publisher: Chicago Review Press Book Description Whether playing at defending their own castle or simply chucking pumpkins over a fence, wannabe marauders and tinkerers will become fast acquainted with Ludgar, the War Wolf, Ill Neighbor, Cabulus, and the Wild Donkey—ancient artillery devices known commonly as catapults. Building these simple […]